On television the other day I saw an advertisement for a criminal background-check service. It portrayed potential babysitters and new boyfriends who bore stickers that read "Convicted of Assault and Battery," "I Drove Drunk" or some other illegal activity. The message was that if it were this easy ...
These upcoming midterm elections are exciting for any Democrat. With an unpopular president dragging down his party and a new scandal striking Republican candidates every week or so, states that were once solidly red are now in play. It's looking more and more likely that the House will have a Democratic ...
On Hillsborough Street in Durham, N.C., not far from my hometown of Chapel Hill, half of a worn-out looking commercial building is occupied by a small but wildly popular outfit known as Locopops. A haven of the petit-bourgeois in a neighborhood of used car lots, the store draws customers from Durham ...
Biological agents, nerve gas, dirty bombs and other scary weapons get all the press these days, but the weapon with the most destructive power remains the nuclear weapon. Though the attention paid to nuclear threats has waned, the danger of nuclear arms has only increased in the years since the fall ...
I don't know about you, but for me, on Oct. 29, Daylight Savings Time was pure liberation. An hour in which I can do all the things I ordinarily don't have time for, like cleaning my floor or shaving really carefully, or just relaxing and shedding the stress of the week - it was almost too good to be ...
The masters of media manipulation have done it again.
I read the column by Diarra Guthrie '06, Davida Delmar '07 and Jane Mee Wong '06.5 about the Columbus Day protests ("The problems of Columbus Day."). And I must say, I was pretty much sold. It seems like the Columbus Day holiday is inextricably linked to the exploitation of Native Americans. But this ...
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